ORWELL PRIZE
A personally curated collection of longlisted, shortlisted and winning candidates for the Orwell Prize, as well as people with a close association with the Prize
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@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@petersbeaumont1.bsky.social
Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
@rangerstaxcase.bsky.social
Orwell Prize winning account. Promoted from "99% crap" to "only half right" by Craig Whyte in just a few years.
@iofiv.bsky.social
TAFKA NightJack - Orwell Prize Winner - Library Volunteer - Labour Party & GMB member - Retired Agent of Karma - 33 Minute Podcaster - Snivelling Minion.
@annachen.bsky.social
UK writer, historian, poet & broadcaster. Orwell Prize shortlisted. Ted speaker. BBC presenter & writer back when it was good. https://www.annachen.co.uk/home/about-anna-chen/
@computerweekly.bsky.social
The UK's leading business technology publication - since 1966. Read all the latest news and features at www.computerweekly.com. Orwell Special Prize 2024. We're the team that exposed the #PostOfficeScandal
@seatrout.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, — attempting simultaneous disillusionment and wonder. ex Guardian, ex Independent. Orwell Prize winner. Interested in trout, Christianity, tech, literature, journalism, Sweden, history. Less and less interested in politics of any sort.
@fmarshallpayne.bsky.social
Orwell Prize-winning writer and DPhil researching women's homelessness at Oxford. I am especially interested in oral history and life-writing. I've written for the TLS, Guardian, Prospect etc | she/her
@rubycowling.bsky.social
THIS PARADISE: Short stories // Boiler House Press // http://tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize; Longlisted Orwell Prize // Luddite
@neilmunshi.bsky.social
Africa Editor for Bloomberg in Nairobi. Ex- @FT. OPC winner. Orwell Prize shortlist. Ex-Lagos, BKLN, CHI, BOM (Meri Jaan), DEL, MPLS. Born in MKE.
@manchesterhistory.uk
Historian, Orwell prize nominated journalist, Angel Meadow author, Manchester History Club newsletter writer, pro genealogist, tour guide, podcaster, History PhD. Here for #history #genealogy chat Join the club: www.manchesterhistory.uk
@adriantempany.bsky.social
First book on Hillsborough and modern football shortlisted for Orwell prize, Gordon Burn prize and Football Book of the Year. Working on debut novel
@victoriapeckham.bsky.social
Times columnist & interviewer, Orwell Prize for journalism winner, trustee of Aldeburgh cinema.
@davidallengreen.bsky.social
Commentator on law and policy. Own blog/substack, but also Prospect, FT, elsewhere. Liberal constitutionalist; Villa supporter; sometimes ironic. Birmingham/London, England. (Account deactivated when not used.)
@anitasethi.bsky.social
🌾writer ✍🏽walker👣 talker🎤 Judge, Orwell Prize 2025 Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for #Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. FRGS. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com
@sallyhayd.bsky.social
Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & the author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year)
@peteapps.bsky.social
Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
@maxdaly.bsky.social
Drugs and crime journalist. Orwell Prize winner. Author, Narcomania. Former Global Drugs Editor, Vice.
@christophercherry.bsky.social
Filmmaker at The Guardian. Orwell prize nominated. Aft agley. Nae pasaran.
@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
“Women are keepers of their own story therefore they are historians.” Etel Adnan 'We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience', 2025. https://lyndseystonebridge.com/
@mattwalshjourno.bsky.social
Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. Trustee at The Conversation, BJTC, and member of Impress standards code committee. Chair of the judges, 2025 Orwell Prize for Journalism. Hacked about a bit.
@everebecca.bsky.social
Journalist mostly covering inequalities for Guardian, Observer, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC & more. Author of Make Bosses Pay. Orwell Prize nominee. She/her. 📧 evelivingstonjournalist@gmail.com 🔗 everebeccalivingston.com 📸 eve__rebecca
@shantidas.bsky.social
Senior investigations reporter, The Times. Orwell prize for exposing Britain’s social evils 2023 shanti.das@thetimes.co.uk
@benfenton.bsky.social
Media/politics(Covered 2 US presidential elections); Fairness - Author of TO BE FAIR https://menschpublishing.com/books/to-be-fair/ Formerly: Chair, Orwell Journalism Prize; FT chief media corr; Telegraph Senior Reporter & Washington Correspondent
@liamthorp.bsky.social
Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. 3 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot Award nominee. Loves overpriced craft ale.
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Writer Longlisted for Orwell Prize Shortlisted twice for Bridport Poetry Prize Longlisted for Bridport Novel Prize Looking for help to move things on